[Jukebox-list] Seeburg's "promise"

[David Breneman]

--- Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>   It was my understanding that RCA and Seeburg worked together on
> the 45's--that was the basis of my original question--why would
> there be published info that Seeburg would continue the "A" for
> "---years---" ? Ron Rich

Well, I'm sure they were hedging to a certain extent.  It's
doubtful that the tooling for the M100-A was ever paid for,
despite the brisk sales.  I'm sure they were hoping, in 1948,
that it would have the longevity of the Freborg mechanism,
because they put a stupendous amount of R&D effort into it.
They probably didn't want to risk operators "sitting on
their hands" (or checkbooks), waiting for The Next Big Thing,
and not buying M100-As as a result.  Seeburg had no hand
in the development of the 45, and I don't think juke boxes 
are even mentioned in "A Record Changer and Record of
Complementary Design" but they played a *big* role in its
adoption, even going so far as to guarantee operators a
steady supply of hit songs on 45s if their local one-stops
refused to stock them.

David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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